yep paranoid..it was VERY hard to mess up measuring with these machines..the fabric fit in so well..BUT they did away with them when poly became the norm...harder to pull through without stretching it, hard to rip, etc....sad...I would put my machine up against any clerk these days!

I was just talking to a lady at the LQS about this very thing over the weekend!!

I remember them at Penney's and at a local Dry Good store in Texas but didn't know what it was called. I do now thanks to UP North.

i remember it too. i wasn't aware that there was a name for it. i was just telling my local fabric shop manager about it last week. she's a few years younger than i am, and she doesn't even remember it.

what fun...thanks for sharing and thanks for the link.... it would have driven me crazy if i couldn't remember the name all weekend!!! the brown one is the version i remember... i seem to remember them usually asking "5 yds? Right?" before they would use the little cutter...... just in case they heard it wrong or you changed you mind before they cut the fabric...

I remember them too! The only problem with them was if you had any stretch to your fabric and it would short you.... The tension when pulling it through the machine stretched the fabric...

Some fabric stores could stand to use this machine. I ordered 7 yards of fabric and
was 10 inches short (I measured twice). I thought that was a bit much. I don't expect
anything extra even though some stores are quite generous when they measure but
give me the quantity I paid for darn it. Anyway, not sure if I want to place another
order with them. Good thing I always buy a little extra. Maybe they use a different
yard stick. Grrr.

Yes I do as well. Those were the days.

I was going to say the same thing. My Hancocks has one for upholstery fabric also.

Did you contact them and tell them? And what was the response?